Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Friendship Essay Plan

Friendship Essay Plan

‘I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others…’

àEnfield tells Utterson about his impressions of Hyde.  had limited interactions with Hyde but he is very reluctant to talk about them, he protests to Utterson that to answer questions about Hyde is a ‘slippery slope’. Enfield would prefer to ignore Mr Hyde and Hyde’s violent behaviour altogether

àStevenson suggests that Enfield and Utterson are repressed and reserved, stereotypical Victorian Gentleman.

àRather than root out evil and violence in their society they’d prefer to sweep it under the rug

àThe theme of repression and secrecy is crucial to the novel, as Stevenson draws an important connection between Jekyll’s own pressed evil and his friends willingness to press their knowledge of Jekyll’s evil.

àStevenson could be said to criticize Victorian society that allows evil to survive as long as its juts out of site.

He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias."

àLanyon complains that Jekyll has changed greatly in recent months

àHe was one calm, rational and kind but now he has become deeply ‘unscientific’ experimenting with strange chemicals and disappearing for days at…